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\ UPHOLSTERERS WIN STRIKE. The imperialist powers, adil Ameri¢a and Japan particularly are| n a seething concealed dispute as) o what to do about the appeal of he Nanking “government of China” o the Kellogg pact signatories for | armed intervention againsS the} Scviet Union in behalf of that myth- ic! thing known as “Chinese sov- ignty” arising out of the punitive | e'bedition of the Red Army into! Manchuria in pursuit of forees of | Chinese troops and Russian white; lgnatds that have been invading} Soviet territory. | While each imperialist power | would like to make the Red’ Army | action tye excuse for armed inter- | vention, each has a particular axe} to grind, and while all are compelled | to agree that the Kellogg Pact must | be enforced, their rival interests are hard to compose on just how it is, to be done . | While thus far the rivalries of | the imperialists, together with the | revolutionary resistance of the world proletariat, such as exhibited on Aug. 1, have protected the Soviet} Union from the attack which the| imperialists had agreed on at the time of the seizure of the Chinese | Eastern Railway last July, they may | again, if only in desperation at the| growing power of the Soviet Union, unite in a sudden armed assault on | IBY WORLD'S WORKERS HOLDS UP IMPERIALIST WAR ON THE USSR Imperialists Seeking to Adjust Rivalries to Attack the Workers’ Republic America Making All Effo Far East by Joint V to Save Itself in - on Soviet ister proviso, that if the League ot Nations wishes to intervene to the exclusion of Ametica and its Kel- logg Pact, America will be face to face with a show-down in the Far East, and must precipitate itself on | some excuse into an immediate war against England and Japan or re- sign its imperialist ambitions in the whole Chinese area. MEXICAN VOTES AS ILLUSORY AS ITS ECONOMICS Insoluble Capitalist Contradictions MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28.—The formality of carrying on a count of the ballots cast in the recent presi- dential race, in which the axiom of Napoleon that “God is on the side of the heaviest artillery” applies to explain the election of Ortiz Rubio, is going on here. Since the govern- ment furnished Rubio the aid not only of artillery but of all other the Soviet Power, in hopes that by |hranches of the military sérvice destroying it, the greatest difficulty |,painst all other candidates, the for all imperial'sm, their mutual | oounting of the ballots is merely a rivalries may be adjusted later. But |jittle practical joke to please those in even approaching the question of | who demand that everything be done | ( a joint attack, these rivalties are fLopping up. Henderson, the “labor” imperialist i{reign minister, admits that Eng- land has been communicating with the United States on the question and Debuchi, the Japanese ambas- sador at Washington, has also ¢on- ferred with Stimson. It seems that neither Britain or Japan agrees with | the U. S. on the proposal for armed | intervention of all powers at this time, since if such general action wi taken, Japan might lose its domi ance in Manchuria, while both Bri- tain and Japan would be compelled by such intervention to support the Nanking “government”—which their Chinese military lackeys have been and are trying to overthrow. Tokio dispatches therefore openly assert Japan’s refusal to accept Washington’s proposal, Japanese of- ficials stating that the Chinese are exaggerating the Red Army action, that Japan rejects China’s (Nan- kjng’s) appeal, that Waskington is ‘gnduly alarmed,” and that if the » S. intervenes it will hae to do “ “independently,” i.e. against | Japan. Henderson, while agreeing. “in principle” that the Kellogg signator- ies must take “joint action,” includes among such signatories “both the United States and the Soviet Union,” and says such agreement must be | reached on the basis of an under- standing on “primary points,” which “includes the Soviet demand for re- turn of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way to its former status.” Unless these rival imperialist powers can adjust: their differences, not much more can be expected from the appeal to the League of Nations which the Nanking representative at Geneva broached Wednesday as soon to be made. But with this sin- DEFY CAL, TERROR 10 WORKERS HELD 3 Working Women Among Arrested SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Nov. —Members of the Communist ‘arty and other militant workers yesterday defied the terror raging throughout the state against mili- tant workers, and held an open air meeting despite the refusal of police to grant a permit . Seven were ar- rested. Three working women were ar- rested at other Communist meetings, among them one of the five working class women whom the bosses’ courts have sentenced to 10 years imprisén+ ment because they conducted a camp in Yucaipa, near here, for workers’ children, where the children were taught about the class struggle. ST. LOUIS (By Mail).—Uphol- sterers employed by seven furniture companies won a shorter working week and a 20 per cent wage gain through a strike. The working week was between 49 and 62 hours, It te been reduced to 44, Ui GLAZIERS STRIKE. MILWAUKEE, Wis. (By Mail). --Glaziers struck in all but three firms here to force the 44-hour week, and the $1 an hour minimum wage. The present working week is 48-60 at 52 cents, or an average of 65 cents an hour. bg Build Up the United Front of | officially. | In an effort to please American linvestors Who own more of Mexico |than do Mexicans themselves, Luis Montes de Oca, whose name is no ;more romantic sounding than his budget (he is minister of finance), announces that he “forecasts” a surplus. This, however, will be cheer- ing news for British imperialism, which is on the point of asking Mex- ico to pay its debts to British cap- italists, even the interest on which has not been paid since 1914. Without increasing the output of the oil wells, a large part of which have been plugged up to cut down the over-supply on the world market, Mexican finances cannot, tinder cap- italism, be extricated from crisis. Put if this is done U. S. prodtiction will be hit—just when Hoover wants to do some extricating at home, as much of the U. S. oil resourcés are also closed. Nor could it do any cood t+ whe British Royal Dutch Shell to know that other Britishers were getting their interest on old debts at its expense. Senor Montes de Oca’s little pleas- antry, therefore, is so much blue sky —unless, of course, a surplus can be vung from more intense exploi- tation of the workers and extorted from the peasantry, which will un- doubtediy be . ied anyway. That was the rensca eveation of the fascist “Labor Code” “orbid strike: and soon. That is the reason the Com- munist Party was driven into iilegal- ity. Supreme Court Sends a Woodlawn Men to Jail (Continued from Page One) ants to t!> venitentiary before the meeting. They were haled into court on a contempt charge, and Dis- trict Attorney Craig swore in open court that they would never speak at the meeting. The Ambridge steel workers turned out however, and the defend- ants spoke to a very successful pro- test meeting. * * Troopers Intimidate Witness. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 28,—J. Margolis, attorney hired by the In- ternational Labor Defense to defend Salvatore Accorsi, whom the Jones & Laughlin Co. and the Mellon con- trolled state of Pennsylvania are framing up on a murder charge, says that state police are intimidat- ing and browbeating miners and others in the vicinity of Cheswick, trying to force them to testify against Accorsi in the trial Dec. 9, here. Aceorsi was arrested in Sept., 1929, in Staten Island, New York, and charged with killing Trooper Downey while the latter was en- gaged ith numerous v* h’s kind, in riding down, clubbing, shooting at and tear-gassing a inige crowd of miners, their wiv.s and children, who were protesting the murder of Sacco end Vanzetti, near (‘neswick, Pa., August 22, 1927. Others we ar- rested at the tims tut the murder ckorge wouldn’t stick. and Accorsi was sele ‘od tim long after he had left the vicinity. Accorsi will be tried in the same court where Coal and Iron Police- man W. J. Lycester, and Coal and Iron Policemen Harold Watts and Frank Slapekis were whitewashed last Septemb: These coal company gunmen, made officers of the law vider the Pennsylvania statutes, ar- resicd John Bar!:ski, a miner, took him to their barracks and beat him to death, All were acquitted in a the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at che Enterprises! strictly Andy Melivn, coal company trial, |Borno Announces U.S.! Change of Face To Be Made in Haitian Rule) From dispatches stating that in| Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Louis Borno,| | who has been “president” since 1922, | | by grace of the U. S. Marines, has j} announced that he will not be a candidate for president next year, | one may understand that U. S. im- perialism is thinking of changing its | | agent there. { Borno has been rather discredited | and a new face is needed to keep up | the pretense of “independence” for Haiti, which is ruled by the U. S. Marines to this day. Borno was) never elected by popular vote in the! first place, and his announcement} lone month ago that the 1930 “elec- | tion” would be by the “Council of State” (which is appointed by him) | indicated at first that it would} simply return the favor by “elect-| ‘ing” him again. It now appears that American im- perialism has some new lackey that | would serve the same purpose while | not being burdened by the public | odium Borno’s long term of servility | to the Yankees has won. But the} Marines remain and Yankee imper- | ialism remains. ‘Minority’ Idea Errors | (Continued from Page One) | the workers are betrayed. The pol- | icy of the A. F. of L. is against the strike weapon and any time they | pretend to use that weapon it is because the workers are developing | a dangerous fighting mood, and it | jis better for them to talk strike than | to talk against it. The case of the! |subway workers of New York is a splendid example of these tactics. One thousand five hunderd workers voted for a broadening of their strike, but thc leaders talked smoothly, said they wanted more | time to negotiate before they call the other workers out. In fact, | they wanted more time to demoral ize and disorganize the workers now on strike so that the broadening of the strike and its successful conclu- sion would be prevented. To win a strike is against the policy of the A. F. of L.; it has now become a principle to lose any strikes that (unfortunately) come under their leadership. ‘fo betray and lose strikes is part of the labor bureau- cracy program in order that they may prove to the employers that they are faithful servants and against strikes, and as a lesson to the policy of class collaboration. However, to even agree to the calling of a fake strike, even with the consent of the employers, is a very dangerous maneuvre {for these fakirs to try. Workers in a fight- | ing mood are not easily handied; they do get out of control, they have a very good habit of wanting to put up a good fight for the things that they struck for. So the bureau- cracy is very wary, very careful, even in attempting to cali a fake | strike. During this period of rising class struggle they will be much more careful. The building of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union, the Na- tional Miners’ Union, the National Textile Workers Union, and the T. .U. U. L. in general is being accom- plished in the presence of a rotten A. F. of L. bureaucracy, which has led betrayal after betrayal and is now scheming even greater betray- als. In the building of these T. U. U, L. sections there can be no dif- ferentiation between the bosses and their agents. The United Textile Workers’ Union, United Mine Wérk- ers of America, the International | Ladies Garment Workers, and the other craft unions in the needle trades are poss-controlled unions | that have taken over the functions of a company union. ‘Yo destroy whatever influence these bureau- erats have over the workers is the task of the industrial unions and this can only be done by organizing the workers for struggle against the rotten conditions that prevail in the factories and for the demands put forth by the unions. Struggle in Needle Trades. For example, the program of ac- tion among the needle trades work- ers, expecially that pertaining to the campaign among the dressmakers, call for an extensive organizing campaign, to develop the mood of the workers for strike struggle, to call shop strikes in the organiza-| tion campaign, not only ir unor- ganized shops but in organized shops that do not live up to the agreements, to develop a strike psy- chology during the campaign to or- ganize the unorganized that will broaden these strikes, and develop the organizational and ideological strength of the N. T. W. L. U., that will make possible the developing of @ general strike, next week, next month or next year depending upon the strength of the union and the morale of the workers. ‘This, in my estimation, is under the circum- stances a correct procedure, not only in New York but in Boston and throughout the country. Some Errors. However, in the conducting of this campaign many errors are be- ing made, the struggie against the emyloyers is obscured in the strug- gle against the right wing. For example, in oston the N, T. W. 1. U, in the campaign to organ- ize the unorganized issued a leaflet calling a mass meeting to answer the following questions; “What ‘should be your answer ‘o the fake strike contemplated by the company union of 15 Essex St.? ‘Why did the ‘peace’ maneuyres fail?” “Is their really any way to unity in our ranks?” “What can you expect of the convention called by the Dubin- sky-Schlesinger clique of the inter- national?” These were. the | | | questions that |that the Secretary the workers that they must except |. IMPERIALIST CHESS MOVES TOWARD WAR Pot All Arming, Trying to) Disarm the Others LONDON, Nov. 27.—The chess moves of imperialist diplomacy have |St¥!¢ oh an ominous character, especially at Ine . n China this time, when all imperialisms are | No. 8 This plant ¢ girding for war under cover of a| 900 workers. naval conference supposed to “re-| Two week duce” naval armament. Je Aeia inet Ad day ote In the beginning, France declares | Plant closed down. that it will not tegard thé London |ment discovered they had run up a conference decisions as Tea ere eerie veeubene. this, naw ¢ will consider them only as sort of | Vice iu. They also discovered that suggestions for the League-of Na-|!ess men would be ngeded to run tons: t6 aettle. ae modern kil Up to now men 0 place the ware 0! ne On Monday the British First Lord | wore vocoie Soka of the Admiralty, A, V. Alexander, |nw¢ answering a question in the House | york. of Commons as to whether there had |ty The been any decision to close the B eer ish naval bases in the Bermudas and (By a Worker Correspondent) A $100,000 con been installed in tyle kilns used in 2 27. ries. by Plant ose to pott Pe © plo ago, when the new con- rleted, ew de ing 90 cents men y only were 17 me bright ides ad men. | The management a \they would take the the job at a 15 per cent wage cut! The executive board of the A. F. it would be women ir nploy half th of men vaid at Jamaica, replied that “there is no | sate 1 n. intention to take such a decis At the same session Henderson, ‘I bor” foreigh minister, declared that eertain debts for property confis- cated by the Mexican government | of], National Brotherhood of Op- (now dominated by the U. 8.) had | crative Potters protested weakly ¢ been ignored and not even interest |iie “Jabor committee” of the U paid since 1914 to British capital- | states Potters Association and ists, and that the “labor” govern-jeused them of bres ged ment was going to press the claim. | ont with the Men The same day @ new armor plate | would have to he taken back at theit for warships and tanks is discov- ] tated that men back on EW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 19zy IN TH ery Workers Street by Convey manage- | cle E hrown on 4) Si peed-Up for cers on “The Wor | OF old rate ty “the it offi- all the new uld simplify of O P is, oekholder h for the mprove- s who never work, but not Ther re many hould be forced for us. | afety first r reports im: could be done for We have to the pa can no | hat a company but it vements the fety of the workers. bring the find no There potters. railroad darkest spot in the yard is where the most work is done. We uated at West 1 . freight from 4 m. to mid- locomotives with their one pa ry workers, form n which will fight for mould runners, th d worker and three , three car , one pin puller, one fore- tenders inspectors, fliate League switch and 15 center The new Textile nal Needle National which a unions. thi ational Nat the Union, , Indu gee Justrial union, Wor! y Trades x of us Railroad 1 to the We the Unior trial Union, the all ng policy ia the interest of the A Pottery Worker. “Unity ion; Li need to be hav Union, unions no ur we the ay seab workers belong to »od of Trainmen, a Some Brother ered, and it is announced that Brit- ain will test its claims of having half the weight and twice the re- sistance of ordinary armor. If the government wanted the discovery kept secret, it would not have been announced. It was given out with word that the U. S. “is known here” to be working on such armor itself. On Tuesday Japan stated that at the coming conference it will de- mand that Britain and America re- duce naval armment. Wednesday it was announced at Washington that the U. S. Navy is “pushing work on five more cruisers,” and that “construction proceeds, though many believed Hoover had held up work on these ships.” It is added of the Navy, Adams, says “no delay” on ship- building. But if Japan demands that Amer- “reduce,” and thi all the ef- fect it has, while American demands for “parity” with England means a | Ws instructed to take up the vapid building of more warships, |tion when he gets there on his j while France refuses to abide by |¢ht tour of a national rubber work- Into Many Industries (Continted from Page One) The board gave instructions for the assembling of more facts as to the numbers of agrieultural workers, their wages and conditions on a na- tional basis. vas reported that many rail- road workers were joining the T. U. U. L. The board ordered more at- tention to New Orleans, where the |recent Street car strike sold out by the heads of the Street and Elec- tical Railway Employes’ Union, sisted by the A. F. of L., the gov lernment and the Catholic Church, nd Chem Cleveland was recogr center for organization wor the chemi workers, and the | tional orga er of the T. U. any decisions of the naval confer- |?’ conference. : ence and Italy demands the right to | | Elemen ROME cine BURY the ind ling to- build up a navy as strong as France s —then cven the blind can see that gether of c the world is headed for war, not |0US localities to work out a series peace, of demands and expose the tions of work in the chemical indus- try was decided upon. s in i- condi- As tar as tam eoricerned, t can't claim to have discovered the ex- istence of classes in modern society Printing Trades. ov thelr strife agai The report on the printing tra’ Giscbua thee jindieated that following a conf Jence of workers in this industry at Cleveland in connection with the Trade Union Unity Convention, the national committee was reorganized, and that members towing through stroggles, and showed the economic physiology the classes. | have added as a new ntriburion the following op: tions: 1) that the lasses is bound up phases of material that the eluss strug ho ry on their return from sarily to the dictatorsh ge) counbey anf es proletariat: 3) that this di Cleveland, established con- is hut the transition ‘o the aboli- | nections with dissatisfied groups of tion of all classes and (o the oy lite sohiey t aul See a thea. |workers. The militant policy 0 Suey lto the T. U. U. L. in the printing pie is unchanged. It is ne to especially build were to be answered by the N. T. W./up the left wing groups in the old I, U. and the resolution passed 2 the meeting traveled along the same line as the leaflet, failing com- pletely to place before the workers the policy of the N. T. W. I. U. The trouble is that we are still suffering from a minority movement psychology. The slogans above are | than formec administration. the slogans of a minority working ‘The “Progs’ have split. ‘There is a within a union and expecting to cap- | jeft wing ticket. ture it, they are not positive fight-| Howard, the head of the Typo- ing slogans, they are negative and grapical Union, is badly discredited. do not rally the workers. They Je js pretty clearly exposed as an cannot and will not put into effect open agent of the printers and pub- the campaign of action adopted by |jishers. His gang has gone to the the N. T. W. I. U. and they should extent of faking 2 union meeting to junions. There is a convention of the Typographical Union in May. Five tickets are in the field, The so- ealled “Progressives,” which recent- ly unseated the old gang in power, ahnetas,’ has shown itself reactionary, even worse be abandoned. adopt contracts selling out the i 5 workers. The. five-day week has Build Up the United Froat of heen postponed for three years. the Working Class. From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! There is a five-yea> contract. The Printing Pressmen i Union, she ASSETS Deposits made on or before the ara day of the month will draw interest from the ist day of the month. Last Quarterly Dividend paid on all amounts from $5.00 to $7,500.00, at the rate of Open Mondays (all day) until 7 P.M Hanking by Mail. Society Acco We Sell AB. A. Travelers Cert 4 COME IN COSTUME Dance Until 3 A. M. MINGLE WITH ARTISTS, WRIT- ERS, TEAMSTHRS, POETS, PLUM- BERS. .THE GAYEST, MADDUST AFFAIR OF THE YRAR WHEN ALL OF NEW YORK BOILS OVER tenets Vy? 6 45Y nore #750» 1 2000 Tickets at Workers Bookshop. or NEW MASSES 12 BK. 19TH ST, (ALG, 4445) T.U.U.L. Begins Drive! a , |the needle trades committee within d others have no union at We'd like to have the N. R. .. good and strong here. Major Berry Be has ex- ‘s admin- ments. and its Bc clerks, patrolmen and reaking and graft, watchmen get a vacation—all other only by obvious gerrymandering employes none. Floatmen, bridge and fake representation at econven- tenders, clerks get one day off a tions week—all other employes get none. Two big locals of the | Retarders are being installed in pressmen in Chicago, sever’ the freight yards, through which expelled by Berry, are uow conduct- one man can do the work that 18 to 5 ig organization campaign. 595 men are doing now. Less men Berry stands aloof at the moment, and more work turned out every come in and try to sell them out he has done in the past. This will probably provoke a split. The industry is not hurt as yet by the industrial crisis, be of the increas: advertisement by bu: ness houses as business gets wors day.—N. Y. R. R. Worker. 18 New War Planes to ult for U.S., Navy NGTON, Nov. 28.—The has signed a contract of eighteen new the navy PR; Be or a meeting of The board calls a few days in New York. FURNIT WORK LOS ANGELES, Calif. (By ve hundred upholster: he new planes will cost $1,067,- cone Furniture C HOSIERY BOSSES ORGANIZE. are sti on strike a f A ; 2 ms Thirty hosiery éut They are der me See manufactur the na- tional ag formu- Union lated by the Hosiery Worker have organized a naticral assoc tion to “stabilize labor “through the A. F. of L. union. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- | tom Up—at the Enterprises! ts” AS PART OF THE PARTY RECRUTING and DAILY WORKER BUILDING DRIVE We Now Announce the Special Sixth Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker (To Be Issued in January) | All Units, Sections, Districts of the Communist Party of United States; All Sympathetic Green. izations; All Party Members and Sympathizers Are Requested to Insert Greetings in This Special ANNIVERSARY EDITION 1. Congratulating the workers of the Soviet Union on the success of the Five-Year Plan and promising co- | operation. 2. Firmly resolving to mobilize the masses of workers to defend the Soviet Union. 3. And to fight the war danger. 1. And to fight social reformism. 5. And to fight the speed-up and wage cuts. 6, And to build the Party into a mass Party, and the 4 Daily Worker into a mass organ to give adequate leadership to the workers in the coming struggle. READ— IMPORTANT! he Sixth Anniversary Special Edition : of the Daily Worker, in view of the | develo ing crisis, unemployment, struggles against rationalization, must be better and larger than the | | er in the Russian language, accompanied by an address to the workers of the Soviet Union and containing all greetings from organizations and individuals to the | Soviet Union for distribution in shops and factories. crnemetter epee or tone Aircraft Corporation. | | Fifth Anniversary Edition. We intend to send a special brinting of the Anniversary Edition of the Daily Work-| rage Inree SHOPS, GHT Reaction! SAVE the CLASS-WAR ‘PRISONERS! ‘The workers behind the bars look for those outside the bars TO FREE THEM! | They fought labor’s battle! You must fight their battle for: freedom! with | | Are you in the fight day in and day out to save the 7 Gastonia Strikers the Chicago workers Los Angeles Workers | ? | Are You Fighting the Sedition Laws > The | International | Labor Defense the midst of a tremendous drive TO FREE ALL CLASS-WAR PRISONERS Is in join the fight for those who fought for you join THE GASTONIA AND _ Anti-Terror DRIVE of the International Labor Defense Write to the National Office: 80 E. Eleventh Street Room 402 | New York City ELT \ ‘

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